There's more to it than that... take a look at the 'release procedure' wiki page. Apparently, Maven will change the version numbers and do the tags. (I'm not entirely sure I trust it against the live repo, but Sean has done it before.) The jars need to be deployed to a staging repo (on the zone?), and the -src and -bin assemblies need to be built.
Maven will change the version numbers but you need to do plenty of manual changing as well. One thing that sometimes gets forgotten until you try to release is that the shared stuff also needs to be changed from SNAPSHOT to final. Its hidden in the middle of the POM where you might not see it. We'll need to change JIRA and create some release notes. You definitely want to post a final RC for people to test. Especially since changing the Maven versions might accidentally break something. It wouldn't hurt to do a final TCK against it either but I'm not volunteering.
Wendy
Sean
